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The Airbus Military A330-200 Voyager tanker-transport aircraft will take over the UK's Falkland Islands air bridge in the coming days, operator AirTanker disclosed on 1 October.
The consortium is scheduled to pick up the trans-Atlantic route from the Royal Air Force (RAF) operated Lockheed L-1011

Sweden is looking to purchase around 100 more BAE Systems BvS10 Mk IIB all-terrain vehicles, Swedish Defence Minister Karin Enstrom has stated.
Enstrom made the call on 24 September in a local newspaper article, although no formal request to that effect is understood to have been made to contractor

The Kenyan Navy has been donated a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) from the UK as part of a wider effort to improve the African country's maritime security.
"The boat is an interceptor, capable of quick reaction and rapid interdiction of suspect vessels," the British High Commission

Norway has conducted the first vessel-to-vessel firing of the Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Nytt Sjomalsmissile/Naval Strike Missile (NSM) anti-ship cruise missile equipped with a live warhead, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on

The first flight of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar being developed for the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft will take place in the first quarter of 2014, with the four partner nations expected to sign a production contract shortly

General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) has been called in to help resolve design problems in the Spanish Navy's new S 80 submarine programme.
As reported by IHS Jane's on 14 May, the design problems have generated expected delays of up to two years in the

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Thales UK a contract worth up to GBP600 million (USD905 million) to provide in-service support for the major sensor systems of the Royal Navy's surface and underwater fleets for the next decade.
The new

Contracts have been awarded for the supply of the integrated active/passive search and attack sonar suite for the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) last two Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs).
Under awards announced on 25 February, Thales UK will